Wonderous Story
Thoughts and memory simply appear in our mind without any apparent cause. Scientists have had many theories on the cause and origin of thoughts for a long time, but there is no consensus and no proof on how thoughts come into being. Commonly it is believed that somehow unconscious brain activity is behind the spontaneous appearance of thoughts in our mind. People commonly identify with the thoughts they experience as an extension of their control.
If the brain is responsible for making these words known to us simultaneous to our looking at them, that means the brain must be a conscious entity since it lacks the required processing tools like databases of word meanings, etc. Can a brain be a different person than ourselves? Of course not. Where does that leave us?
We can observe that the thoughts we experience are not caused by our own control. Let me prove that to you right now. I will ask a question in a moment, when you read it make no attempt to answer it, just look at the question and focus on listening to your mind. Ready? Just listen to your mind. Here goes, where were you born?
How did that answer appear in your mind?
That proves that we don’t do anything to create thoughts. Thoughts simply appear in our mind without any seeming cause. We have no idea how to cause or create thoughts, or how to stop them. Try to explain how to create thoughts or find memory. You can’t. Scientists are also unable. People believe we control or create thoughts and memory because we don’t see or experience what is actually causing them. So we believe it must be us. But we have no idea how to create thoughts or find memories — because we don’t. The truth is that thoughts and memory simply appear in our mind and this has confounded scientists for a long time.
What do we do when we try to “find” a memory? There is nowhere to look. We imagine we are searching for memory data, but that is an illusory perception of what actually occurs because there is nowhere to look. Whatever thoughts appear in our mind when we want aka “search” for a memory — those memories are not “found” by anything we actually do. We see no data storage system in our mind yet we imagine that we “find” memory. In reality all we do is want memory. Then the memory appears, or not, in our perception of our mind — and then people mistakenly believe they have “found” a memory by some process of searching. When in truth our perception of memory is not due to our searching or looking somewhere. There is nowhere to look and no way to search for memory data. Like thought, memory appears without a visible or known cause in our mind.
Still, even without any perceptible data source for the thoughts and memories we experience in our mind, they are indeed being manifest by something. And that something must be aware of what we desire — because when we want a memory the memory appears in our mind. Not always, but often. Therefore, whatever is causing memory to appear as a consequence of our desire — the cause must not only be able to understand what we desire, and therefore have an intellect and ability to interact mentally with us — it must also have powers that we lack — because it controls our memory and we do not.
We need to experience memories and thoughts because without them we would be clueless about everything, we would lack an intellect because our intellect is based on our memory of our past experience or learning. Without something more able than ourselves managing our memory and therefore our intellect — we would be like a newborn infant all the time. Newborn infants have no memories and therefore no intellect. We have no direct access enabling us to manifest memories at our leisure like we do when interacting with a written or audible source of information — but we do have an intellect based on memory and thought nevertheless — because something is in fact supplying us with the memory and thought we need to enable our existence as intelligent beings.
A definition of magic is “an effect without a competent cause.” Our thoughts and memories appear to us as if by magic. Modern science has not been able to show a competent cause for thoughts or memory, all current theories lack sufficient proof to claim to be accepted as a true or definitive theory. Which has led therefore to many scientists proposing many different theories.
When scientists claim the brain is somehow the cause of thought and memory, they are in effect saying: Your brain is speaking the thoughts you hear, your memories are given to you by your brain. Which if you said more thoroughly would sound like this: Your brain is speaking the thoughts and memory you experience in your mind and therefore, logically, it must be a conscious and intelligent entity different than you because it has the ability to observe and understand everything you see, feel and desire — in order to provide you with the coherent thoughts and memory you experience from moment to moment yet have no clue on how to cause or control by your own effort.
Scientists are perplexed and have good reason for that. Most blame the brain others see the problem with that since the brain would have to be a conscious and intelligent being in its own right to do what we experience in our mind. We don’t do anything to cause thought, or find memory, that much is easily observed and understood. If the brain is doing that for us, that would mean the brain would have to be aware of our state of mind at every moment, and be able to read our desires, and then intelligently respond with words which we “hear” as our thoughts and memories. That means the brain would have to be a consciously aware and intelligent entity.
The brain literally speaks to us and intelligently manages our memories vs. something else is doing that.
There is no third option. One of those has to be true.
A conscious entity different than us must be creating and managing our thoughts and memories since we don’t know how yet it is being done for us.
Can a brain be conscious of what you are, what you desire, and then speak to you? That is what most scientists are proposing. The brain in that scenario must:
- Be a conscious being in its own right.
2. It must have a mind of its own in order to have the ability to speak to you.
3. It must be intelligent since it is speaking to you and managing your memories.
4. It must have abilities that we lack since we do not know how or where to find memories, nor how to create thoughts. Yet both occur without our knowledge or ability to do them on our own.
5. It must have a memory system of its own in order to know how to do all the things it does for us, e.g., when we read this our memory provider needs to have its own memory of what these words mean. Which means it needs to understand the word meanings of the languages we understand and know how to make that memory data known to us — without any time lag between our reading or hearing of words and their meanings being made known to us.
Brain cells cannot do any of that because 1) They lack the tools to do it, and 2) They are not conscious intelligent entities that as far as we know are the only things that can inherently perceive and understand things, and 3) There is no evidence that brain cells can understand the non-material substance that we call thoughts, and 4) Brain cells are organic machines, which means at best they can only produce an illusion of perception and understanding something, e.g., a computer can create the illusion of comprehending these words, or an automatic door opener gives the illusion that it can see you.
But those machines are not perceiving anything, they may produce an illusion of perception but in fact operate based on electrical or chemical reaction, not by comprehension like conscious entities are able to do. Our brain cells do not even have the ability to do that, they do not have the tools to create the illusion of comprehension like a computer can, e.g., brains do not have the storage and processing tools, the databases of language comprehension and word meanings that it would need to create the illusion of managing our memory and thoughts. Nor do they have all the rest of the hardware and software tools computers require to create an illusion of comprehending these words. Brains react to our thoughts, but there is no proof of their having the tools to manage thoughts.
I will give an example of how this is all misunderstood in academia in order to push a specific type of philosophical certitude (materialism) that all who work in “the sciences” are expected to accept. In academia or “SCIENCE” anything that is resistant to a materialist explanation will be met with a barrage of hysterics insisting that there is no other possible explanation, because anything non-materialist or not normal in their understanding is by nature beyond normal, paranormal, which is simply not acceptable philosophically (religiously, if you will). If a scientist tries to object to that philosophical mindset, they may find many doors closed to them, career-wise. The current acceptable “scientific” ethos is dogmatic materialist philosophy, i.e., anything not explainable by a material cause is therefore not an objective reality. If that sounds irrational, and you can’t believe they would behave like that, welcome to “SCIENCE” in the 21st century.
Here is an example of how that ethos leads to irrational nescience disguised as science by following the philosophy that nothing outside a materialist explanation can be used to prove how the brain, mind and memory works:
A TV can relay a live show from a broadcasting studio, but the TV set does not have the ability to create or manage anything about how the show is made. If you damage the TV you maybe can’t see the show very well, or maybe not at all. But that does not correlate to the TV being the source of the show — except in modern “science.” In academia they would say that the fact of the TV itself having the ability to affect your perception of the show in such a profound way, that is a proof that the TV creates or manages the show. That is how the science of mind and thoughts in academia tries to explain how the brain is the cause and managing mechanism controlling our thoughts and memory.
They say that because the brain is correlated to our perception of our thoughts and memory, for example when you read this then certain areas of the brain will show electrochemical activity, that is a type of proof that the brain is causing and managing the memory you experience of the meaning of these words, and your brain is creating the thoughts you hear as you read this. That is no different from saying that because a TV reacts to the signal it receives from a live show by producing specific forms of colored pixels, that proves the TV is creating and managing the show — when in fact all it does is interact with the show because it does not have the tools to create and manage shows.
Here is another irrational example they use as a type of proof that the brain controls thoughts and memory: If a person’s brain is damaged then their thoughts and memory may not work as well as they used to. That is no different than saying that if you damage a TV and it no longer works right — we can infer from that that the TV controls and manages the shows you can no longer see very well. Because the TV is correlated to your perception of the show, therefore it is not illogical and unscientific to claim the TV is behind the creation and management of the shows you see on it. That is how the science of the mind works today in academia due to the dogmatic insistence on only allowing materialist explanations for any theory to be acceptable as “scientific.”
Even though it is completely irrational to believe that our brain, which clearly lacks the tools to manage the data, the information we experience as our memories, mind, and thoughts — the irrational belief that the “brain must be doing all that anyway,“ that is in fact the working hypothesis in today’s scientific community.
And any theory positing a non-material explanation is seen with suspicion and will be ignored, automatically rejected as unscientific by most academics and scientists. That is due to an irrational dogmatism embedded in their worldview, i.e., that there is no “objective” reality outside of the materialist reality espoused by the philosophical underpinning of modern science. Even though the mind itself is non-physical, and our thoughts and memory are non-physical, explaining their cause by referring to a non-material agency is automatically seen as unscientific — even though the current material explanations have hit a wall and obviously need a non-material element to explain what they are unable to do but still insist on teaching: that the brain can do the impossible, e.g., be aware of and understand these words, then make them understandable to us, and also speak them in our mind as we read this.
Brain cells cannot speak to us…but something is in fact doing just that. As you read these words you hear them spoken to you in your mind. You are not causing it and you also cannot stop it (see Subvocalization).
Because you are not causing these words you hear spoken in your mind, something else must be causing it.
So, what is speaking these words in your mind as you read this? It has to be able to manage what you experience as your memory since it is making you remember what these words mean, and it must be able to speak to you since it is speaking these words as you read. It must therefore be more intelligent than ourselves since we are unable to directly access and manage our memory for ourselves like we have access to these words. We must therefore also be reliant on it for our intellect, since our intellect is based on memory management.
If the brain is responsible for making these words known to us simultaneous to our looking at them, that means the brain must be a conscious entity since it lacks the required processing tools like databases of word meanings, etc. Can a brain be a different person than ourselves? Of course not. Where does that leave us?
Something conscious of us, and of our thoughts, who is more conscious and more intelligent than we are — something far superior to ourselves has to be doing all those things for us, otherwise those things would not exist. That is a simple and inescapable fact of life. Something, or rather someone with the ability to speak to us in our mind is creating our thoughts, our memories, and therefore managing our intellect — because a brain cannot read, cannot understand, cannot speak.
Our thoughts and memory exist in and are made out of unknown dimensions, whereas computers and brains communicate using known dimensions of matter and energy — so neither a computer nor a brain can perceive and comprehend your thoughts, nor can they communicate with you by processing and speaking thoughts to you.
BUT — something is in fact doing just that for you.
As you read, these words are being spoken as thoughts which you hear in the mind, and their meaning is made known to you by nothing more than looking at these words. Whatever is doing that for you — it has to be more conscious and more intelligent than you — since it is being done without you knowing how to do it for yourself. You don’t know how to create thought, how to process memory, nor do you know what thought, and memory is comprised of. Whatever is doing that for you, does know. It has to know — because if it didn’t, then you would not have thoughts, or memory, or the ability to perceive them to make you understand the meaning of these words.
Whatever we experience in the world is being governed over from sub-atomic dimensions at every moment according to physicists. Thoughts and memories appear to us by an unseen seemingly intelligent and consciously aware of us process, that must be aware of our desires — a process that has eluded scientists precisely because thoughts and memory are non-physical.
We are able to experience the non-material dimensions of thought, memory, and dreams because our own consciousness or Self is also non-material and seemingly designed explicitly for that purpose. Therefore, we are not limited like a machine to only be able to interact with 3-dimensional physical reality. We are able to directly perceive and interact with sub-quantum non-material dimensions like thought. And whatever is manifesting and managing our thoughts and memory — must also be able to do that.
We perceive our own conscious Self as the experiencer of thoughts, memories, dreams, and emotions — as well as the experiencer of physical reality through our senses. Constant information is being fed to our Self through our mind as thoughts and memories. Without the intelligent support we experience from a sub-quantum dimension managing our thoughts and memory — we would have no intellect, no intelligence, no knowledge — because they are all dependent on memory being constantly available to us in a managed and non-chaotic method.
The mystic traditions teach us that our conscious self and mind is a part of, and an expression of, the universal ground of being. That is also taught by one of the most renowned theorists of quantum physics. David Bohm’s Implicate and Explicate Order quantum theory to explain the mysteries of quantum mechanics — teaches the same thing from the perspective of cutting-edge physics. The mystic traditions teach that the physical universe is manifest from a subquantum dimension by a cosmic all-pervading universal entity (the same idea as Bohm’s implicate or sub-quantum order) which manifests itself as all the things and people within the universe (Bohm’s explicate order).
That is why our memory, thoughts, and intellect are seemingly intelligently and consciously managed without any control by ourselves. That is how dreams are created even though we may have no more artistic ability than average. Dreams appear as if we have suddenly found ourselves in a movie — yet in the dream it seems like real life to us. It is a work of perfectly designed 3-dimensional art in our mind. Which we have no ability to create on our own when awake.
Quantum Mechanics has more or less proven the simulation hypothesis, which is the idea that reality is not what it seems from an external viewpoint, that there is a sub-quantum framework being used to manifest our world of matter/energy by an intelligence far beyond our understanding. This is a common view of reality among physicists. See this next video. (If youtube blocks it in your locale go to its mirror here.)
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last
When all are one and one is all
The above lyrics by singer Robert Plant from Stairway To Heaven are from his study of the various mystic traditions he and co-songwriter Jimmy Page had an interest in. Jimmy Page said:
It’s unfortunate that my studies of mysticism and Eastern and Western traditions of magick and tantra have all come under the umbrella of Crowley. Yeah, sure, I was fascinated by his techniques and ideas. But I was reading across-the-board.
The One is all, all is The One. That is the basic existential message of all mystical traditions east and west. The idea being that the universe is a transcendent living being who manifests itself through us…and as us. Accessing that being is as simple as the lyrics above say: Listen very hard. This is the basic meditation tool of all mystical traditions — to observe the mind, to listen to it, to detach from seeing the mind as an extension of your control, to see it as an extension of The One. To recognize the mind as an extension of a conscious being different from you — but part of you at the same time. Listen to the mind as if it is not you in control of the thoughts you experience. That meditation will reveal the truth of your relationship to The One. In the Yoga traditions this is called Samadhi, in the Kabbalist traditions Devekut, in the Buddhist traditions Nirvana, in the Zen traditions Satori, in the Sufi traditions Fana, to the ancient Greek mysteries Henosis, to Christian Mystics as Theosis. It is all the same thing. Focusing on the true nature of consciousness in relation to the cosmic unity within and without you.
So ultimately the Truth is that there is an internal Oneness underlying all external phenomena. Like a screenwriter and director underlying what you experience in a movie scene. Enlightenment means to be able to perceive and experience the truth of that Oneness expressing itself. Enlightenment means to be able to perceive that everything is one with it and to perceive that everything is manifesting its power — all the time. Experience of the One Being within us, and within others, and as us, and as everything — as the dominant controlling principle — is Enlightenment.
When you watch a movie the dominant controlling principle is the director/writer. The actors are only extensions of that dominant controlling principle. They manifest the will of the controller of the movie. In the same way all you will ever experience is a manifestation of the control of the director of the Universe, also known as Ishvara in Sanskrit. Ishvara means controlling principle, controller of your ability, the ruler of capabilities. It is a word used for the universal consciousness or Brahman, when describing how it functions in our experience of the world. We are described as expressions of The One or Brahman, which expresses itself through us by controlling and ruling over our abilities. For example the ability to manifest thoughts which we do not know how to do, or the ability to know things without doing anything to access memories.
The truth of what is actually causing and controlling that reality is revealed to us when we are ready. The truth of our intimate relationship with the ruler of reality will be revealed to us from within the mind as the controller of thoughts, and from outside ourselves by revealing its control over everyone and everything else we experience. Then when we experience the world we will see not just the external manifestation of various bodies, nature, thoughts, or emotions — but also experience the controlling principle underlying those things who uses your knowledge of its control over everything — for direct communication with you…
